Music Industry Files More Suits
In Effort to Halt Online Pirates

By

Sarah McBride Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Jan. 22, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

Signaling that it will continue its aggressive pursuit of online music pirates despite a recent legal setback, the music industry announced a fresh batch of lawsuits against 532 anonymous individuals whose identities it now will seek to learn.

With music sales down sharply over the past few years -- a decline the music industry blames on illegal downloaders who use online peer-to-peer services -- the Recording Industry Association of...